Happy Hundred

The "Happy Hundred", also known as the "100 Brothers",[1] was a group of investors who owned the Philadelphia Eagles franchise of the National Football League from 1949 to 1963. The group was headed by Philadelphia trucking magnate James P. Clark, the majority owner.[2][3] Frank McNamee, the team president, and Clark rounded up 100 Philadelphia investors to invest $3,000 each to purchase the team for $250,000 from Alexis "Lex" Thompson on January 15, 1949. The Eagles won two NFL Championships while under ownership of the "Happy Hundred," in 1949 and 1960. By his death in 1962, Clark had owned twenty percent of the team and only 65 investors were left from the original "Happy Hundred." The "Happy Hundred" sold the club to Jerry Wolman in December 1963 for $5,505,000, and each investor received more than $60,000.[4] One member of the "Happy Hundred," Leonard Tose, tried to buy the team from the majority owners in 1956 with a group of his own, but did not have success. He eventually bought the Eagles from Wolman in 1969 and owned the team until 1985.[5]

Bill Mackrides, the starting quarterback for the Eagles in 1948, claimed that the "Happy Hundred" was a sham. He said, "That's all pure myth. It made for a good story and headlines but the truth is Lex Thompson sold about 60 shares to Jim Clark. Clark had a friend who owned another 20 shares. To this day, no one knows that."[6]

Such an ownership group is not legal under current NFL bylaws, which requires that one general partner hold at least a 30% stake in the team[7] and limits the number of people who can hold interest in a club organized as a corporation to 25.[8]

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Philadelphia Eagles
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The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football franchise based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Eagles compete in the National Football League as a club of the leagues National Football Conference East division. The franchise was established in 1933 as a replacement for the bankrupt Frankford Yellow Jackets, when a group led by Bert Bell secured the rights to an NFL franchise in Philadelphia. Bell, Chuck Bednarik, Bob Brown, Reggie White, Steve Van Buren, Tommy McDonald, Greasy Neale, Pete Pihos, Sonny Jurgensen, the team has an intense rivalry with the New York Giants. This rivalry is the oldest in the NFC East and is among the oldest in the NFL and they also have a historic rivalry with the Washington Redskins, as well as their bitter rivalry with the Dallas Cowboys, which has become more high-profile in the last three decades. The team consistently ranks in the top three in attendance and has sold out every game since the 1999 season, in a Sports Illustrated poll of 321 NFL players, Eagles fans were selected the most intimidating fans in the NFL. Midway through the 1931 season, the Frankford Yellow Jackets went bankrupt, the Bell-Wray group had to pay an entry fee of $3,500 and assumed a total debt of $11,000 that was owed to three other NFL franchises. Neither the Eagles nor the NFL officially regard the two franchises as the same, citing the period of dormancy. Furthermore, almost no Yellow Jackets players were on the Eagles first roster, the Eagles, along with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the now-defunct Cincinnati Reds, joined the NFL as expansion teams. To accommodate football at Shibe Park during the winter, management set up stands in right field, some 20 feet high, these east stands had 22 rows of seats. The goalposts stood along the first base line and in left field, the uncovered east stands enlarged capacity of Shibe Park to over 39,000, but the Eagles rarely drew more than 25 to 30,000. The Eagles struggled over the course of their first decade, enduring repeated losing seasons, soon after, Bell and Rooney traded the Eagles franchise to Thompson and moved it to Pittsburgh, while Thompson moved the Steelers franchise to Philadelphia. By the late 1940s, head coach Earle Greasy Neale and running back Steve Van Buren led the team to three consecutive NFL Championship Games, winning two of them in 1948 and 1949. After the 1957 season, the Eagles moved from Connie Mack Stadium to Franklin Field at the University of Pennsylvania, Franklin Field would seat over 60,000 for the Eagles, whereas Connie Mack had a capacity of 39,000. The stadium switched from grass to AstroTurf in 1969 and it was the first NFL stadium to use artificial turf. In 1960, the Eagles won their third NFL championship, under the leadership of future Pro Football Hall of Famers Norm Van Brocklin and Chuck Bednarik, the head coach was Buck Shaw. The 1960 Eagles, by a score of 17–13, became the team to defeat Vince Lombardi. The Eagles had a good 1961 season and then fell on hard times in 1962

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National Football League
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The National Football League is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference and the American Football Conference. The NFL is one of the four professional sports leagues in North America. The NFLs 17-week regular season runs from the week after Labor Day to the week after Christmas, with each team playing 16 games, the NFL was formed in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association before renaming itself the National Football League for the 1922 season. The NFL agreed to merge with the American Football League in 1966, and the first Super Bowl was held at the end of that season, the merger was completed in 1970. Today, the NFL has the highest average attendance of any sports league in the world and is the most popular sports league in the United States. S. The NFLs executive officer is the commissioner, who has authority in governing the league. The team with the most NFL championships is the Green Bay Packers with thirteen, the current NFL champions are the New England Patriots, who defeated the Atlanta Falcons 34–28 in Super Bowl LI. Another meeting held on September 17,1920 resulted in the renaming of the league to the American Professional Football Association, the league hired Jim Thorpe as its first president, and consisted of 14 teams. Only two of these teams, the Decatur Staleys and the Chicago Cardinals, remain, the first event occurred on September 26,1920 when the Rock Island Independents defeated the non-league St. Paul Ideals 48–0 at Douglas Park. On October 3,1920, the first full week of league play occurred, the following season resulted in the Chicago Staleys controversially winning the title over the Buffalo All-Americans. In 1922, the APFA changed its name to the National Football League, in 1932, the season ended with the Chicago Bears and the Portsmouth Spartans tied for first in the league standings. This method had used since the leagues creation in 1920. The league quickly determined that a game between Chicago and Portsmouth was needed to decide the leagues champion. Playing with altered rules to accommodate the playing field, the Bears won the game 9–0. Fan interest in the de facto championship game led the NFL, beginning in 1933, the 1934 season also marked the first of 12 seasons in which African Americans were absent from the league. The de facto ban was rescinded in 1946, following public pressure, the NFL was always the foremost professional football league in the United States, it nevertheless faced a large number of rival professional leagues through the 1930s and 1940s. Rival leagues included at least three separate American Football Leagues and the All-America Football Conference, on top of regional leagues of varying caliber. Three NFL teams trace their histories to these leagues, including the Los Angeles Rams

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1960 NFL Championship Game
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The 1960 National Football League championship game was the 28th NFL title game. The game was played on Monday, December 26, at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the American Football League was in its first season and held its inaugural title game less than a week later. This was the second and last NFL championship game played in Philadelphia, a dozen years earlier, the 1948 title game was held in the snow at Shibe Park and was also an Eagles victory. Ticket prices for the game were ten and eight dollars, the game matched the leaguess conference champions, Philadelphia Eagles of the East and Green Bay Packers of the West. The Eagles were making their first appearance in a game since 1949. Two years earlier, both teams had finished last in their respective conferences, due to the lack of lights at Franklin Field, the kickoff time was moved up to 12 p. m. EST. The league was concerned about the possibility of sudden death overtime, the game was played on a Monday, similar to 1955, as the NFL did not want to play on Christmas. Led by future hall of fame head coach Vince Lombardi, Green Bay won the Western Conference, a game ahead of the Detroit Lions and San Francisco 49ers. The two-time defending champion Baltimore Colts, led by quarterback Johnny Unitas, were 6–2 on November 13, Green Bay had won six league championships before, most recently in 1944, but the intervening years had been lean. At the time, Lombardi was better known as an assistant coach for the New York Giants. Hired by the Packers in January 1959, he led them to a 7–5 record in his first season as a head coach, Starr had shared playing time with Lamar McHan, who won all four games he started, while Starr was an even 4–4.0. The 1960 game represented a chance for Philadelphia to add to the two titles they had won in 1948 and 1949, but the team had declined to two wins in 1958. Less than a month after the game, he was named the head coach of the expansion Minnesota Vikings. Philadelphia had clinched the Eastern title early on December 4 at 9–1, a capacity crowd of 67,325 gathered at Franklin Field, then the home field of the University of Pennsylvania, with 7,000 temporary seats having been added. It had snowed several days earlier in Philadelphia, followed by cold temperatures, after Jim Taylor gained five yards on first down, the Packers were unable to score, turning the ball over to Philadelphia at the six-yard line. A fumble on the Eagles third play after gaining possession by Bill Barnes was recovered by Bill Forester of Green Bay at the 22-yard line of Philadelphia. Two Paul Hornung rushes gave the Packers a first down at the 12-yard line, Lombardi elected to kick on fourth down, with Hornung connecting from 20 yards out and giving the Packers a 3–0 lead. Hornung kicked a field goal in the opening minutes of the second quarter from 23 yards out, after a Packers drive stalled on the 17-yard line

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Jerry Wolman
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Jerry Wolman was a Washington, D. C. developer and owner of the Philadelphia Eagles football team of the National Football League. Wolman was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania and he worked in the family business into his high school years, when his father had a stroke. Not graduating, Wolman joined the Merchant Marines, returned home, in the 1950s, he began his own construction company, building apartment units and offices. He was also the owner of Connie Mack Stadium and he was also one of the founding owners, briefly in 1967, of the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League. Over the next two years, his financial empire crumbled into bankruptcy, and he was forced to give up his interests in both teams. In 1967, he sold his Flyers interest to his co-owners, with Ed Snider assuming control, along with his partners, Bill Putnam and Joe Scott. In 1969, he sold the Eagles to Leonard Tose for a reported $16.1 million, Wolman was a member of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame, one of its chapters is named after him. Wolman was an individual who never forgot his coal mining town roots. He kept in contact with his hometown of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania through good, Wolman also initiated the development of the John Hancock Center, a 100-story skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, but withdrew from the project because of financial difficulties. Wolman lived in Potomac, Maryland, with his wife, Bobbie and he was a father of two and a grandfather of eight. He died on August 6,2013, at the age of 86, Jerry Wolman, Joseph Bockol, Richard Bockol, Jerry Wolman, The Worlds Richest Man, 3rd & Long Productions, Rockville, Maryland,2010

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Quarterback
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A quarterback is a position in American and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the team and line up directly behind the offensive line. In modern American football, the quarterback is considered the leader of the offensive team. In modern American football, the quarterback is usually the leader of the offense, the quarterback touches the ball on almost every offensive play, and his successes and failures can have a significant impact on the fortunes of his team. Accordingly, the quarterback is among the most glorified and scrutinized positions in team sports, prior to each play, the quarterback will usually tell the rest of his team which play the team will run. After the team is lined up, the center will pass the ball back to the quarterback, usually on a running play, the quarterback will then hand or pitch the ball backwards to a half back or full back. On a passing play, the quarterback is almost always the responsible for trying to throw the ball downfield to an eligible receiver downfield. Depending on the scheme by his team, the quarterbacks role can vary. While quarterbacks in Canadian football need to be able to throw the ball often, in the NFL, quarterbacks are required to wear a uniform number between 1 and 19. In the CFL, the quarterback can wear any number from 0 to 49 and 70 to 99. Because of their numbering, quarterbacks are eligible receivers in the NCAA, NFHS, after a Super Bowl victory, the starting quarterback is the first player to be presented with the Vince Lombardi Trophy. The starting quarterback of the victorious Super Bowl team is chosen for the Im going to Disney World. Campaign, whether they are the Super Bowl MVP or not, examples include Joe Montana, Trent Dilfer, Dilfer was chosen even though teammate Ray Lewis was the MVP of Super Bowl XXXV, due to the bad publicity from Lewis murder trial the prior year. In addition to their role, quarterbacks are occasionally used in other roles. Most teams utilize a backup quarterback as their holder on placekicks, in the Wildcat, a formation where a halfback lines up behind the center and the quarterback lines up out wide, the quarterback can be used as a receiving target or a blocker. A more rare use for a quarterback is to punt the ball himself, Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway was known to perform quick kicks occasionally, typically when the Broncos were facing a third-and-long situation. As Roger Staubachs back-up, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Danny White was also the teams punter, ascending the starting role upon Staubachs retirement, White held his position as the teams punter for several seasons—a double duty he performed to All-American standard at Arizona State University. White also had two touchdown receptions as a Dallas Cowboy, both from the halfback option, if quarterbacks are uncomfortable with the formation the defense is using, they may call an audible change to their play

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The Philadelphia Inquirer
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The Philadelphia Inquirer is a morning daily newspaper that serves the Philadelphia metropolitan area of the United States. The newspaper was founded by John R. Walker and John Norvell in June 1829 as The Pennsylvania Inquirer and is the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the United States. Owned by Philadelphia Media Network, The Inquirer has the eighteenth largest average weekday U. S. newspaper circulation and has won twenty Pulitzer Prizes and it is the newspaper of record in the Delaware Valley. The paper has risen and fallen in prominence throughout its history, the Inquirer first became a major newspaper during the American Civil War when its war coverage was popular on both sides. The papers circulation dropped after the war, then rose by the end of the 19th century, by the end of the 1960s, The Inquirer trailed its chief competitor, the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, and lacked modern facilities and experienced staff. In the 1970s, new owners and editors turned the newspaper one of the countrys most prominent. Stan Wischnowski is Vice President of News Operations, the Philadelphia Inquirer was founded as The Pennsylvania Inquirer by printer John R. Walker and John Norvell, former editor of Philadelphias largest newspaper, the Aurora & Gazette. Founded on June 1,1829, The Philadelphia Inquirer is the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the United States, however, in 1962, an Inquirer-commissioned historian traced The Inquirer to John Dunlaps The Pennsylvania Packet, which was founded on October 28,1771. In 1850, The Packet was merged with another newspaper, The North American, after Harding acquired The Pennsylvania Inquirer, it was briefly published as an afternoon paper before returning to its original morning format in January 1830. Under Harding, in 1829, The Inquirer moved from its location between Front and Second Streets to between Second and Third Streets. When Harding bought and merged the Morning Journal in January 1830, Ten years later The Inquirer again was moved, this time to its own building at the corner of Third Street and Carters Alley. Harding expanded The Inquirers content and the paper grew into a major Philadelphian newspaper. The expanded content included the addition of fiction, and in 1840, at the time the common practice was to pay little or nothing for the rights of foreign authors works. Harding retired in 1859 and was succeeded by his son William White Harding, William Harding changed the name of the newspaper to its current name, The Philadelphia Inquirer. Harding, in an attempt to increase circulation, cut the price of the paper, in 1859, circulation had been around 7,000, by 1863 it had increased to 70,000. Part of the increase was due to the interest in news during the American Civil War, the Philadelphia Inquirer supported the Union, but Harding wanted their coverage to remain neutral. Confederate generals often sought copies of the paper, believing that the war coverage was accurate. Inquirer journalist Uriah Hunt Painter was at the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861, initial reports from the government claimed a Union victory, but The Inquirer went with Painters firsthand account

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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker

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The Morning Call
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The Morning Call is a daily newspaper based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It ranks among the nations top 100 largest-circulation daily newspapers, with circulation of 80,548 daily readers and 119,216 Sunday readers, the Morning Calls history goes back to 1883 when The Critic, an Allentown newspaper, was founded. The editor, owner and chief reporter of The Critic was Samuel S. Woolever, in what would become a family dynasty that would oversee the company for four decades, in 1894 Muhlenberg College senior David A. Miller went to work for The Critic as its sole reporter. Its owners were Charles Weiser, editor, and Kirt W. DeBelle, the identity of the lucky winner is lost to history, but on Jan. 1,1895, Allentown City Treasurer A. L. Reichenbach and that same year, David A. Miller and his brother Samuel Miller were able to purchase their first shares of The Morning Call. It was the start of a series of stock buyouts that would leave the newspaper entirely in the hands of the Miller brothers by 1904, in that nine-year period, the Miller brothers worked to gather subscribers. In one case, David A. Miller even attended a corn husking party and had family there signed up by the time he left. By 1920, World War I and the work of the Millers had raised circulation to 20,000, a series of newspaper mergers that year, funded by Gen. Harry Clay Trexler, led to the Millers sale of The Morning Call to the Trexler interests. It was only after Trexlers death in 1933, and at the urging of David A. Millers sons, Donald P. in 1935 The Morning Call acquired the sole remaining Allentown newspaper, the Chronicle and News, and renamed it the Evening Chronicle. In 1938 the Sunday Call-Chronicle was first published, in 1951, David A. Miller assumed the official title of president of the Call-Chronicle newspapers. He would keep that post until his death in 1958 at the age of 88 and that September his sons, Donald and Samuel, were named publishers. After Samuels death in 1967, Donald P. Miller continued to run the newspaper and he did so with his son, Edward D. Miller, until the late 1970s when Edward became executive editor and publisher. The Evening Chronicle went to press for the last time in 1980, in 1981 Edward D. Miller left the newspaper, and Donald P. Miller returned as chairman. The publisher and chief officer was Bernard C. Publishers of the Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Times, shorts was publisher and chief executive officer from 1987 until succeeded by Guy Gilmore in 2000. Susan Hunt was named publisher in June 2001, in September 1996, The Morning Call launched its website, themorningcall. com. In 2000, Times Mirror was acquired by the Tribune Company, merging 11 newspapers,22 television stations, four stations, a cable TV company. In February 2006, Timothy R. Kennedy was named publisher, in 2010, Timothy E. Ryan, the publisher and CEO of The Baltimore Sun Media Group, also became The Morning Call’s publisher and CEO

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Philadelphia
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In 1682, William Penn, an English Quaker, founded the city to serve as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony. Philadelphia was one of the capitals in the Revolutionary War. In the 19th century, Philadelphia became an industrial center. It became a destination for African-Americans in the Great Migration. The areas many universities and colleges make Philadelphia a top international study destination, as the city has evolved into an educational, with a gross domestic product of $388 billion, Philadelphia ranks ninth among world cities and fourth in the nation. Philadelphia is the center of activity in Pennsylvania and is home to seven Fortune 1000 companies. The Philadelphia skyline is growing, with a market of almost 81,900 commercial properties in 2016 including several prominent skyscrapers. The city is known for its arts, culture, and rich history, Philadelphia has more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other American city. Fairmount Park, when combined with the adjacent Wissahickon Valley Park in the watershed, is one of the largest contiguous urban park areas in the United States. The 67 National Historic Landmarks in the city helped account for the $10 billion generated by tourism, Philadelphia is the only World Heritage City in the United States. Before Europeans arrived, the Philadelphia area was home to the Lenape Indians in the village of Shackamaxon, the Lenape are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government. They are also called Delaware Indians and their territory was along the Delaware River watershed, western Long Island. Most Lenape were pushed out of their Delaware homeland during the 18th century by expanding European colonies, Lenape communities were weakened by newly introduced diseases, mainly smallpox, and violent conflict with Europeans. Iroquois people occasionally fought the Lenape, surviving Lenape moved west into the upper Ohio River basin. The American Revolutionary War and United States independence pushed them further west, in the 1860s, the United States government sent most Lenape remaining in the eastern United States to the Indian Territory under the Indian removal policy. In the 21st century, most Lenape now reside in the US state of Oklahoma, with communities living also in Wisconsin, Ontario. The Dutch considered the entire Delaware River valley to be part of their New Netherland colony, in 1638, Swedish settlers led by renegade Dutch established the colony of New Sweden at Fort Christina and quickly spread out in the valley. In 1644, New Sweden supported the Susquehannocks in their defeat of the English colony of Maryland

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History of the Philadelphia Eagles
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The official NFL history of the Philadelphia Eagles begins in 1933. The Eagles history may be divided into eight distinct eras, in their history, the Eagles have appeared in the Super Bowl twice, but they have never won it. The Eagles have won three NFL Championships, the precursor to the Super Bowl, in four appearances, the beginning era of the Eagles history,1933 to 1939, was influenced by its owner, and then also coach, Bert Bell. After Bell ostensibly sold the team, to Alexis Thompson in 1940, in 1931, Philadelphias NFL franchise, the Frankford Yellow Jackets, who had won the NFL Championship in 1926, went bankrupt and ceased operations midway through the season. After more than a year searching for a replacement, the NFL granted an expansion franchise to a syndicate headed by former University of Pennsylvania teammates Lud Wray. Bell and Wray had previously played together on the Union Club squads, the Union Club of Phoenixville in 1920. In exchange for a fee of $2,500, the Bell-Wray group was awarded the assets of the failed Yellow Jackets organization. Neither the Eagles nor the NFL officially regard the two franchises as the same, citing the period of dormancy. The Eagles simply inherited the NFL rights to the Philadelphia area, further, only a single player from the 1931 Yellow Jackets ended up with the 1933 Eagles. The new team played its first game on October 15,1933, the Eagles struggled over the course of their first decade, never winning more than three games. For the most part, the Eagles rosters were composed of former Penn, Temple, in 1935, Bell, by that point the teams General Manager, proposed an annual college draft to equalize talent across the league. The draft was a concept in professional sports. Between 1927 and 1934, a triopoly of three teams had won all but one title since 1927. Having finished last in the standings, the Eagles had the first pick in the 1936 draft and they then traded his rights to the Chicago Bears. Berwanger, who had no interest in playing football, elected to go to medical school instead. That year, the Eagles participated in the first televised game, against the Brooklyn Dodgers. The 1940s would prove a tumultuous and ultimately triumphant decade for the young club, in 1940, the team moved from Philadelphia Municipal Stadium to Shibe Park. Lud Wrays half-interest in the team was purchased by Art Rooney, soon thereafter, Bell/Rooney and Thompson swapped franchises, but not teams

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List of Philadelphia Eagles head coaches
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This is a list of head coaches for the Philadelphia Eagles. The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Eagles joined the National Football League as an expansion team in 1933. Currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference, there have been 22 head coaches of the Eagles in the NFL. Two different coaches have won NFL championships with the team, Earl Greasy Neale in 1948 and 1949, andy Reid is the all-time leader in games coached and wins, while Neale has the highest winning percentage with.594. Bert Bell is statistically the worst coach the Eagles have had in terms of winning percentage, of the 22 Eagles coaches, four have been elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Bert Bell was a member of the Hall of Fame. Bell was inducted for his work as the NFL Commissioner from 1946–1959, wayne Millner, who coached the team in 1951, was enshrined as a player in 1968. Greasy Neale was in the class of 1969 for his work as the Eagles coach in the 1940s, mike McCormack made the 1984 class for his Offensive Tackle play. Several former NFL players have been coaches for the Eagles, including Jerry Williams, Ed Khayat. Spent 14 seasons in charge before he was fired on December 31,2012 and he was replaced by former University of Oregon head coach Chip Kelly, who led the Eagles to a 10–6 record and the playoffs. Kelly was fired on December 29,2015 after going 6–9 through that seasons first 15 games and he was replaced by Offensive coordinator Pat Shurmer for week 17. As of January 14, the Eagles named Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator, Doug Pederson their new head coach going into the 2016-2017 NFL season

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List of Philadelphia Eagles players
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This is a complete list of American football players who have played for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League. It includes players that have played at least one game in the NFL regular season, the Philadelphia Eagles franchise was founded in 1933. The Eagles have played for six NFL Championships and have won three, but still have no Super Bowl wins out of two appearances, Smith, Jack Smith, Jackie Smith, John Smith, L. J. Philadelphia Eagles

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Baker Bowl
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Baker Bowl is the best-known popular name of a baseball park that formerly stood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Its formal name, painted on its wall, was National League Park. It was also known as Philadelphia Park or Philadelphia Base Ball Grounds / Park. It was on a city block bounded by N. Broad St. W. Huntingdon St. N. 15th St. and W. Lehigh Avenue, the ballpark was initially built in 1887. It was constructed by Phillies owners AJ Reach and John Rogers, the ballpark cost $80,000 and had a capacity of 12,500. At that time the media praised it as state-of-the-art, in that dead-ball era, the outfield was enclosed by a relatively low wall all around. Center field was close, with the railroad tracks running behind it. Later, the tracks were lowered and the field was extended over top of them, bleachers were built in left field, and over time various extensions were added to the originally low right field wall, resulting in the famous 60-foot fence. The ballparks second incarnation opened in 1895 and it was notable for having the first cantilevered upper deck in a sports stadium, and was the first ballpark to use steel and brick for the majority of its construction. By comparison, the Green Monster at Fenway Park is 37 feet high and 310 feet away, the Baker wall was a rather difficult task to surmount. The wall was an amalgam of different materials and it was originally a relatively normal-height masonry structure. When it became clear that it was too soft a home run touch, the barrier was extended upward using more masonry, wood, and a metal pipe-and-wire screen. The masonry in the part of the wall was extremely rough. The clubhouse was located above and behind the field wall. No batter ever hit a ball over the clubhouse, but Rogers Hornsby once hit a ball through a window, the ballpark, shoehorned as it was into the Philadelphia city grid, acquired a number of nicknames over the years. Baker Bowl is the name, and is nearly always referred to by that name in histories of the Phillies. The prosaic Philadelphia Baseball Grounds or Philadelphia Baseball Park was the often used by sportswriters prior to the Baker era

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Shibe Park
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Shibe Park, known later as Connie Mack Stadium, was a baseball park located in Philadelphia. It was the home of the Philadelphia Athletics of the American League, when it opened April 12,1909, it became baseballs first steel-and-concrete stadium. In different eras it was home to The $100,000 Infield, The Whiz Kids, Shibe Park stood on the block bounded by Lehigh Avenue, 20th Street, Somerset Street and 21st Street. It was five blocks west, corner-to-corner, from the Baker Bowl, the stadium hosted eight World Series and two MLB All-Star Games, in 1943 and 1952, with the latter game holding the distinction of being the only All-Star contest shortened by rain. In May 1939, it was the site of the first night game played in the American League, Phillies Hall-of-Fame centerfielder and longtime broadcaster Richie Ashburn remembered Shibe Park, It looked like a ballpark. It had a feeling and a heartbeat, a personality that was all baseball, when as many as 28,000 showed up to fill the 9,500 wooden bleacher seats, Shibe and partner Connie Mack decided the As needed a new place to play. He searched for a site for his new park and found one on Lehigh Avenue between 20th and 21st Streets, five blocks west of Baker Bowl, straddling the neighborhoods known as Swampoodle and Goosetown. It was still primitive at the time, an area of high bluffs, rain-washed gullies, quagmires, open fields, even ponds where chickens pecked. Although a grid of streets was planned for the area, few actually existed, without the hospital, the areas stigma would eventually dissipate, but at the time, the land was still a bargain. He spent a total of $67,500 on seven land packages totaling 5.75 acres, for the design and its execution, Shibe hired William Steele and Sons. Their engineering staff had worked with the new technology of steel-reinforced concrete, and designed and built the citys first skyscraper, the Steele design for the Shibe façade was in the ornate French Renaissance style, including arches, vaultings, and Ionic pilasters. The souvenir program on Opening Day called it a combination of color. Gabled dormer windows on the upper decks copper-trimmed green-slate mansard roof looked out over the streets below, presiding over all were terra cotta busts of Shibe and Mack above the main entrances on Lehigh and 21st. The signature feature of the design was the octangular tower on the southwest corner. On the ground floor was an entrance lobby. Bobby Shantz, pitcher for the As in their last years at Shibe, Shibe was proud of the egalitarianism of the design, he said it was for the masses as well as the classes. In April 1908, design in hand, the Shibes and the Steeles broke ground, with the resources of the Steele firm, construction was speedy, efficient and completed in time to open the 1909 season. The city was excited about its new ballpark – the Philadelphia Public Ledger called it a palace for fans, American League president Ban Johnson pronounced that Shibe Park is the greatest place of its character in the world

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Franklin Field
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Franklin Field is the home of the Penn Relays, and is the University of Pennsylvanias stadium for football, lacrosse and formerly for soccer, field hockey and baseball. It is also used by Penn students for recreation, and for intramural and club sports, including football and cricket. It is located in Philadelphia, at the edge of Penns campus. It was formerly the field of the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League. Franklin Field was built for $100,000 and dedicated on April 20,1895, deemed by the NCAA as the oldest stadium still operating for football, it was the site of the nations first scoreboard in 1895. Its location was given as 37th and Spruce. Permanent Franklin Field construction did not begin until after the turn of the century, weightman Hall gymnasium, the stadium, and permanent grandstands were designed by architect Frank Miles Day & Brother and were erected from 1903 to 1905 at a cost of $500,000. The field was 714 feet long and 443 feet wide, the site featured a ¼-mile track, a football field, and a baseball diamond. Beneath the stands were indoor tracks and indoor training facilities, plans called for a new train station called Union Station which would feature a Pennsylvania Railroad stop and a stop on a proposed elevated subway line connected to the Market–Frankford Line. Architecture firm Koronski & Cameron created a rendering but plans quickly collapsed, five years later, it was decided instead to expand Franklin Field. The current stadium structure was built in the 1920s, designed by Day & Klauder, after the wooden bleachers were torn down. The lower tier was erected in 1922, the old wood stands were razed immediately following the Penn Relays and the new concrete lower tier and seating for 50,000 were built. The second tier was added in 1925, again designed by Day & Klauder, the first football radio broadcast originated from Franklin Field in 1922. It was carried by Philadelphia station WIP and this claim is pre-empted by an earlier live radio broadcast emanating from Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, on October 8,1921, a full year before Franklin Fields claim to fame. Harold W. Arlin announced the live broadcast of the Pitt-West Virginia football game on October 8,1921, the first commercial football television broadcast in 1939 also came from Franklin Field. In the universitys football heyday — when Penn led the nation in attendance — the 65, today, Franklin Field, named after Penns founder, Benjamin Franklin, seats 52,958. Franklin Field switched from grass to AstroTurf in 1969 and it was the first National Football League stadium to use artificial turf. The stadiums fifth AstroTurf surface was installed in 1993, the current Sprinturf field replaced the AstroTurf in 2004

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Veterans Stadium
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Veterans Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium in Philadelphia, in the U. S. state of Pennsylvania. It was located at the northeast corner of Broad Street and Pattison Avenue, the listed seating capacities in 1971 were 65,358 seats for football, and 56,371 for baseball. It hosted the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League from 1971 to January 2003, the 1976 and 1996 Major League Baseball All-Star Games were held at the venue. The Vet also hosted the annual Army-Navy football game seventeen times, in addition to professional baseball and football, the stadium hosted other amateur and professional sports, large entertainment events, and other civic affairs. It was demolished by implosion in March 2004 after being replaced by the adjacent Citizens Bank Park, a parking lot now sits on its former site. As early as 1959, Phillies owner Bob Carpenter proposed building a new ballpark for the Phillies on 72 acres adjacent to the Garden State Park Racetrack in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. The Phillies then-home, Connie Mack Stadium, was starting to show its age, had inadequate parking, furthermore, in 1959 alcohol sales at sporting events were banned in Pennsylvania but were legal in New Jersey. The proposed ballpark would have seated 45,000 fans, been expandable to 60,000, the American Leagues Philadelphia Athletics had moved to Kansas City, Missouri after the 1954 season and Philadelphians werent about to lose another professional sports franchise. In 1964, Philadelphia voters approved a US$25-million-bond issue for a new stadium to serve as the home of both the Eagles and the Phillies, because of cost overruns, the voters had to go to the polls again in 1967 to approve another $13 million. At a total cost of $60 million, it was one of the most-expensive ballparks to date, the stadium was named by the Philadelphia City Council, in 1968, for the veterans of all wars. As early as December 1969, the Phillies expected that they would play the first month of the 1970 season at Connie Mack Stadium before moving to the new venue, however, the opening was delayed a year because of a combination of bad weather and cost overruns. The stadiums design was circular, and was known as an octorad design. Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego had been similarly designed, as was the case with other cities where this dual approach was tried, the fundamentally different sizes and shapes of the playing fields made the stadium inadequate to the needs of either sport. The Phillies played their first game at the stadium on Saturday, April 10,1971, beating the Montreal Expos, 4–1, jim Bunning was the winning pitcher while Bill Stoneman took the loss. Entertainer Mike Douglas, whose daily talk show was taped in Philadelphia, the emcee for the opening ceremonies was newly arrived Harry Kalas. Boots Day opened the game by grounding out to Bunning, larry Bowa had the stadiums first hit and Don Money slugged the first home run. As the stadium aged, its condition deteriorated, a hole in the wall allowed visiting teams players to peep into the Eagles Cheerleaders dressing room. So many mice infested the stadium that the security force employed cats as mousers, the final football game played at the Vet was the Eagles 27–10 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFC Championship Game on January 19,2003

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Lincoln Financial Field
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Lincoln Financial Field is the home stadium of the National Football Leagues Philadelphia Eagles and the Temple Owls football team of Temple University. It has a capacity of 69,176. It is located in South Philadelphia on Pattison Avenue between 11th and South Darien streets, also alongside I-95 as part of the South Philadelphia Sports Complex, many locals refer to the stadium simply as The Linc. The stadium opened on August 3,2003 after two years of construction began on May 7,2001, replacing Veterans Stadium. While total seating capacity is similar to that of The Vet, the fields construction included several light emitting diode video displays, as well as more than 624 feet of LED ribbon boards. Naming rights were sold in June 2002 to Lincoln Financial Group, additional construction funding was raised from the sale of Stadium Builders Licenses to Eagles season ticket holders. The Army–Navy football game has played at the stadium. Temple Universitys Division I college football team plays their home games at Lincoln Financial Field. The Philadelphia Union of Major League Soccer have played games here against high-profile international clubs when their stadium Talen Energy Stadium does not provide adequate seating. The stadium also plays host to several games each year. In late spring of 2013, the Eagles announced that there will be some major upgrades to Lincoln Financial Field over the next 2 years, the total project estimate is valued at over $125 million. The upgrades included seating expansion, two new HD video boards, upgraded amenities, WiFi, and two new connecting bridges for upper levels and these upgrades were decided upon after research from season ticket holders, advisory boards, and fan focus groups. The majority of changes, including WiFi, were completed by the 2013 home opener. The upgraded sound systems and video boards were finished for the 2014 season, August 3,2003, Lincoln Financial Field hosted its first ticketed event, a soccer match between Manchester United and FC Barcelona. August 22,2003, The Philadelphia Eagles hosted the New England Patriots in the first pre-season football game at Lincoln Financial Field, September 6,2003, Lincoln Financial Field hosted its first regular-season college football game, a college matchup of local Philadelphia rivals, Villanova and Temple. Villanova prevailed 23–20 in double overtime, September 8,2003, The Eagles and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers competed on Monday Night Football in the first regular-season NFL game at Lincoln Financial Field. The game was referenced as the Inaugural Game at Lincoln Financial Field, the Buccaneers defeated the Eagles 17–0 in their new home. NFC Divisional Playoff, January 11,2004 and this game is also known as The Miracle of 4th and 26

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Swoop (Philadelphia Eagles)
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The mascot Swoop is used to represent various sports organizations in the United States. One of the most notable mascots named Swoop is used by the NFL Football team the Philadelphia Eagles, various American universities use the name Swoop as their athletic program mascots. During the NFL regular season, Swoop regularly appears as a character in the weekly Eagles Kids Club television show. Since the shows debut in 2005, the version of Swoop has been serving as a host of this show. Swoop made a appearance in an NFL Shop commercial where a thief disguised as a kangaroo mascot tried to steal Philadelphia Eagles jerseys from the locker room after a game. Swoop walks into the room and the kangaroo tries to escape. Swoop also made a appearance in the 1994 comedy film Ace Ventura, Pet Detective. The Swoop character is depicted as an American bald eagle wearing a jersey of the Philadelphia Eagles

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Curse of Billy Penn
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Atop Philadelphia City Hall stands a statue of William Penn, the city founder and original proprietor of the then-British colony of Pennsylvania. For years, a gentlemens agreement stated that the Philadelphia Art Commission would approve no building in the city which would rise above this statue and this ended in March 1987, when a modern steel-and-glass skyscraper, One Liberty Place, opened three blocks away. One Liberty Place is taller than City Hall by 397 feet and its sister skyscraper, Two Liberty Place, at 848 ft, followed in 1990. Philadelphia sports teams had enjoyed a run of success, construction on One Liberty Place began in 1985, two years after the last championship season in Philadelphia. In the 1980 season, all four reached the championship round of their respective leagues. Ultimately, only the Phillies would win a championship that year, after One Liberty Place opened, Philadelphias franchises began a pattern of failures to win a world championship. The Phillies upset the Atlanta Braves to win the NLCS, but then lost the 1993 World Series in six games to the Toronto Blue Jays, with the Series ending on Joe Carters walkoff 3-run home run. The 76ers lost the 2001 NBA Finals to the Los Angeles Lakers in five games, the citys teams had lost championships during such years, beginning with the 76ers themselves in 1977. The exceptions were the Phillies in 1983 and the Flyers in 1987, in addition, losses in semifinal rounds had occurred eight times since the opening of One Liberty Place. Five of these semi-final eliminations were by the Flyers, in 1989,1995,2000,2004 and 2008, during the period of the alleged Curse of Billy Penn, Philadelphia sports fans were infamous for rude and unsportsmanlike behavior. Fans pelted national TV broadcasters with snowballs, ice, and beer during a Cowboys-Eagles game in 1989 known as Bounty Bowl II. On Nov.10,1997, an Eagles fan shot a gun across the field into the stands during a nationally televised Monday night game against the San Francisco 49ers. The curse has also blamed for the death of the thoroughbred horse Barbaro, who was owned and bred by a couple from West Grove, Pennsylvania. Though Barbaro won the 2006 Kentucky Derby, his leg was shattered two weeks later during the 2006 Preakness Stake, leading to the horses death. Villanova won the championship in 1985, two years before the Liberty Place opening. A third Philadelphia-area team, the Temple Owls has also lost five times in the Elite Eight, villanova ended the college basketball drought for the Philadelphia teams with a national championship in 2016. The curse, however, was not extended to professional teams outside of the four major sports. The then–Philadelphia Wings of the NLL won six titles between 1989 and 2001, before moving in 2014, and the now-defunct Philadelphia Barrage of the MLL won three championships

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Invincible (2006 film)
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Invincible is a 2006 American sports drama film directed by Ericson Core. It is based on the story of Vince Papale, who played for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1976 to 1978 with the help of his coach. The film was released in the United States on August 25,2006, in 1976, Vince Papale goes to a sandlot one night and joins his friends playing a pick-up practice football game against another group of young men. After the game ends, Papale goes home and finds out that his wife Sharon is disgusted with his failure to provide proper support. The next morning, Papale goes to the school where he works as a substitute teacher. In a short, unexpected meeting with the principal, he is told of his layoff, later in the day, there is a report that the Eagles have hired a new head coach named Dick Vermeil as shown in a formal televised conference. That night, Papale goes to the bar where he works as a part-time bartender, the bar contains die-hard Eagles fans, who are watching TV about the hiring of Vermeil. The news story concludes with the announcement by Vermeil that he is staging open public tryouts for the Eagles, the men in the bar encourage Papale to go to the tryout. When Papale returns home, he finds out that his wife has left him, distraught, Papale thrashes the few remaining belongings that Sharon left behind. When Papale goes to the bar next night, he meets a new co-bartender, Janet Cantrell, desperate for income in the aftermath of his wifes departure, Papale receives support from his friends and attends the tryout hosted at Veterans Stadium. Out of several hundred Philadelphia residents attending the training facility, Papale performs well during the workouts, after the camp is over, Papale fails to start his car and Dick Vermeil comes by. He is impressed by Papale’s actions at camp and invites him to training camp to compete for a spot with the Philadelphia Eagles. Everyone at the bar becomes excited about the TV announcement that Papale will be joining the team, after work, Papale has an interview with a newscaster. His father, meanwhile, offers to let Vince stay with him, the following day, he goes to his first training camp with the Eagles. As the days of training camp progress, Papale endures a life full of hard work, Papale goes out on a date with Janet one night, but didnt think hed still be on the team. He says hes not sure he can start a new relationship at that time because hes focused on trying his best to make the team and she goes to help out at the bar and he leaves. As training camp ends, the roster spot is down to Papale. Against his assistants advice, Vermeil decides to give the spot to Papale, as Papale’s career with the Eagles begins, the team loses all six preseason games and their regular season opener against the Dallas Cowboys

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Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame
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From 2004 to 2010, the organization also presented an annual Pride of Philadelphia Award to a team or individual. Individuals, Teams, Venues, Events, and Organizations are all eligible, generally they must have gained national prominence as individuals or venues while attached to the Philadelphia region, or won a championship as a team from the Philadelphia region. Individuals are eligible for induction five years after retirement from a playing career, when an individual dies, he or she becomes immediately eligible. An individual who was not an athlete may be inducted in the categories, Legacy of Excellence, Lifetime Commitment. The Pride of Philadelphia Award is given to teams or individuals who have represented the Philadelphia area with dignity, determination,2004 Smarty Jones, winner, Kentucky Derby / Preakness Stakes Bernard Hopkins, Undisputed middleweight champion St. The Foundation formed Hall of Fame Charities in 2004 and it supports or has formed partnerships with organizations in the Greater Philadelphia area that promote youth sports, especially at the pre-teen, grade-school level. Hall of Fame Charities also has student and community programs

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Dan Baker (PA announcer)
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Dan Baker is an American public address announcer best known for many years as the voice of Veterans Stadium, Lincoln Financial Field, and Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. Baker has been the public address announcer for the Philadelphia Phillies since 1972 and he has served as a PA voice for five World Series, two Major League Baseball All Star Games, and three NFC Championship Games. Though the Phillies and Eagles left Veterans Stadium for new venues and he also serves as PA announcer for the Army–Navy Game when it is played in Philadelphia as well as Drexel University Dragons mens basketball. Between Baker and former Chicago Cubs public address announcer Pat Pieper, Pieper from 1916–1974 and Baker from 1972–present. The last game that was played without Pieper or Baker announcing games, was the 1915 World Series on October 13,1915. Baker was the announcer for Drexel University Dragons mens basketball on WNTP990 AM from 1997–2012, after which he retired. Before that, he broadcast Philadelphia BIG5 Basketball games for 21 years while serving as its executive director from 1981–96. Baker was named to the Big 5 Hall of Fame in 1997 and was inducted into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame in 2012, Baker co-hosts a radio show on WBCB1490 called Bull Session with former Philadelphia Phillies slugger Greg Luzinski, for whom the show is named after. The show airs at 6,00 pm on Monday nights and each week they bring in a special guest, Baker reprises his role as the Philadelphia Phillies PA announcer for select Phillies away games at multiple venues that comprise a chain of Philadelphia area sports bars. The events are billed as Summer Nights with Dan Baker, at these appearances, Baker announces the game over the sports bars PA system in exactly the same fashion as he would if he was announcing an actual Phillies home game. On May 7,2014, the Philadelphia Eagles announced that Baker would no longer serve as the public address announcer for the Eagles, Baker will continue to be the public address announcer for the Phillies. On September 16,2015, XFINITY Live. announced that Baker would be the public address announcer for Philadelphia Eagles games. Bakers duties are similar to those he had as the public address announcer for the Eagles, which include energizing the crowd with his signature calls. For the 2015 season, Baker is scheduled to appear at 12 of the 16 Eagles games and act as the public address announcer for the entire state-of-the-art venue which holds up to 5,000 fans

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Philadelphia Eagles Cheerleaders
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The Philadelphia Eagles Cheerleaders are the cheerleading squad of the Philadelphia Eagles, who plays in the NFL. The squad debuted in 1948 as the Eaglettes, and became the Liberty Belles in the 1970s, in April, the squad holds annual auditions at the Kimmel Center, with the final auditions being aired on PhiladelphiaEagles. com. The squad, unlike other NFL squads, also releases a swimsuit calendar, the squad also makes off-field appearances. The squad has also made an appearance at the 2012 Senior Bowl in Mobile, beverly Hubscher, pornographic actress Krystle Campbell, wife of Ryan Howard Eagles Cheerleaders official page

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Silver Linings Playbook
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Silver Linings Playbook is a 2012 American romantic comedy drama film written and directed by David O. Russell. It was adapted from the novel The Silver Linings Playbook, by Matthew Quick, the film stars Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, with Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, Chris Tucker, Anupam Kher, and Julia Stiles in supporting roles. Cooper plays Patrick Pat Solitano, Jr. a man with bipolar disorder who is released from a hospital and moves back in with his parents, played by Robert De Niro. The two become closer as they train and Pat, his father, and Tiffany examine their relationships with other as they cope with their problems. Silver Linings Playbook premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8,2012, the film opened to major critical success and earned numerous accolades. It received eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, the film was a success at the box office, grossing over $236 million worldwide, more than eleven times its budget. After eight months of treatment in a health facility for bipolar disorder, Patrick Pat Solitano is released into the care of his father Patrizio. His main focus is to reconcile with his wife, Nikki. She has moved away and obtained an order against him after Pat had found her in the shower with another man. During his time in the clinic Pat befriends Danny McDaniels, an man who is embroiled in a legal dispute with the clinic on whether or not he is eligible to leave. Pats therapist, Dr. Patel, does his best to him to keep taking his medication. But Pat tells him that he has a new outlook on life, he attempts to see the good, or silver linings, at dinner with his friend Ronnie and his wife Veronica, Pat meets Veronicas sister Tiffany Maxwell, a young widow with depression and relationship problems. Sparks fly between Pat and Tiffany and she tries to connect by offering sex, but Pat keeps focusing on getting Nikki back. Tiffany tries to get closer to Pat and even offers to deliver a letter to Nikki—if, in return, he will practice dancing with her and he reluctantly agrees and the two begin a rigorous practice regimen over the following weeks. Pat believes the competition will be a way to show Nikki that he has changed. Patrizio hopes to open his own restaurant and has resorted to illegal bookmaking, having put virtually all of his money on the outcome of a Philadelphia Eagles game, he asks Pat to attend as a good-luck charm. Danny is eventually released from the clinic, and teaches Pat, Pat asks Tiffany for time off from practice to attend the game. She gives him a reply from Nikki, in which she cautiously hints there may be a chance for reconciliation between them

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Frankford Yellow Jackets
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The Yellow Jackets won the NFL championship in 1926. The team played its games from 1923 in Frankford Stadium in Frankford. The Frankford Athletic Association was organized in May 1899 in the parlor of the Suburban Club, the cost of purchasing a share in the association was $10. However, there were also contributing memberships, ranging from $1 to $2.50, the Association was a community-based non-profit organization of local residents and businesses. In keeping with its charter, which stated that all profits shall be donated to charity, the beneficiaries of this generosity included Frankford Hospital, the Frankford Day Nursery, the local Boy Scouts, and the local American Legion Post 211. The officers of the Association never received a salary or compensation for their work on behalf of the team, the associations clubhouse was originally located at the current site of Frankford High School. The field at this site, known as Wistar Field, became the first official home of the Yellow Jackets, several years later, when the construction of the current high school was proposed, the team moved to Browns Field. The Association initially fielded a team, however soccer and football clubs were also formed. The original Frankford Athletic Association apparently disbanded prior to the 1909 football season, several of the original players from the 1899 football team kept the team together, and they became known as Loyola Athletic Club. In keeping with Yellow Jackets tradition, they carried the Frankford name again in 1912, in the early 1920s, the Frankford Athletic Associations Yellow Jackets gained the reputation as being one of the best independent football teams in the nation. In 1922, Frankford absorbed the Philadelphia City Champion team, the Union Quakers of Philadelphia and that year Frankford captured the unofficial championship of Philadelphia. During the 1922 and 1923 seasons the Yellow Jackets compiled a 6–2–1 record against teams from the National Football League and this led to the Association being granted an NFL franchise in 1924. The Yellow Jackets assembled in September 1924 under coach Punk Berryman to begin preparing for the upcoming season, the team included players Harry Dayhoff, Russ Stein, Joe Spagna, Whitey Thomas, Al Bedner, and Bob Jamison. The team often played 15 to 20 games a season, frequently, they would schedule two games on the same weekend, typically one at home on Saturday and, because of Pennsylvanias blue laws, an away game on Sunday. In their very first game as a member of the NFL, Frankford finished the season with an overall record of 17–3–1, with an 11–2–1 record in league play. They finished third in league standings only behind the Cleveland Bulldogs and Chicago Bears, under modern standings tabulation procedures, after a 9–0–1 start, Frankford lost several key players, including Chamberlin, to injuries. After a 49–0 defeat to the Pottsville Maroons, Frankfords captain Bull Behman was suspended indefinitely from the team for indifferent play and he was accused of not giving his best during the past few weeks because of some dissension with other players. The move helped improve the team, which posted a 13–7 record in league play, the Yellow Jackets had a part in the 1925 NFL Championship controversy

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Steagles
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The Steagles were the team created by the temporary merger of two National Football League teams, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles, during the 1943 season. The teams were forced to merge because both had lost many players to service during World War II. The leagues official record book refers to the team as Phil-Pitt Combine, the prospect of a unified Pittsburgh-Philadelphia team actually predated World War II by several years. League officials rejected the plan, though it resulted in a convoluted ownership two-step that left Eagles owner Bert Bell with a share in the Steelers franchise, america entered World War II on December 7,1941 with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Most of the men who were of the age to play professional football were also of the age to fight for their country. 600 NFL players joined the armed forces and he made no mention of football, during that address, as baseball far surpassed football in popularity at the time. However at its 1943 annual spring meeting, the NFL decided to follow baseballs lead, the young men who remained in the States to play football were deferred from the draft. The Steagles players were either unfit for service for physical reasons or age. Three types of deferments defined 1943 NFL players, the first group was called 3-As. If a man was supporting a family the draft board would not make him a priority, the government defined a 3-A as a father whose child/children was born or conceived prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. The cutoff date for birth was September 15,1942, precisely nine months, the second group consisted of those men who worked in the war industry, producing and preparing ammunition, weapons and materials. The third group were those deemed physically unfit due to such as ulcers, flat feet. Most NFL football players wanted to join the war, in the early 1940s it was considered a patriotic duty to serve and fight for the country. Being classified as a 4-F was an embarrassment, playing football and being ridiculed was added embarrassment. However, there was a feeling that if a man could play then he could fight in the war. One Steagle and future Hall of Famer, Bill Hewitt, quit in the middle of the season and he could not take the ridicule and subsequent guilt feelings anymore. Hewitt was good enough to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971, however the players were not making the decisions on who could or could not fight. Men with flat feet were not drafted and they could lead normal lives and even play football, but the Army deemed that flat feet was not conducive to marching long distances

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Miracle at the Meadowlands
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It is considered miraculous because the Giants were ahead and could easily have run out the final seconds, they had the ball and the Eagles had no timeouts left. Everyone watching expected quarterback Joe Pisarcik to take one more snap and kneel with the ball, thus running out the clock, instead, he botched an attempt to hand off the football to fullback Larry Csonka. Edwards picked up the ball and ran 26 yards for the winning score. It was the first meeting between the rivals that season. The Eagles were in place in the NFC East, behind the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins. The teams went into the game in similar situations, but heading in different directions, given the similarity of their records, it was likely the outcome would have playoff implications, since the first tie-breaker for a wild card spot is the head-to-head record. Going into the game, the Giants were 5–6, a three-game losing streak on the road had made the teams playoff prospects much dimmer since midseason. However, a win at home against the favored Eagles could, despite the teams storied past, the Giants had not played in the postseason since 1963 and had managed only two winning seasons since then. Although they were the fourth oldest franchise, they were almost a non-entity in the post-merger NFL. The move to New Jersey in 1976 had alienated some longtime fans, Fans had never gone this long without a contender, but while they were growing restless, they were still forgiving. The two managed team operations closely, but feuded so bitterly with each other that at one point a partition had to be erected between their seats in the owners box. The effects of this uncertainty and instability at the highest managerial level affected the teams play and it was not lost on fans that players and coaches who had once been in the Giants fold were now enjoying or had enjoyed great success elsewhere. The team also had passed over future stars for less able players in the annual draft, but all this was for naught. The week before the game, players, particularly on offense, had complained to reporters about the teams assistant coaches, head coach John McVay was popular with them. He had taken over the team in the middle of the 1976 season after Bill Arnsparger was fired and improved morale while adding talented players to the team, however, the players were not so enthusiastic about many of the longtime friends he had hired as assistants. The players felt the assistant coaches were uninterested in helping younger players develop, as an example, they pointed out that the season before, none of the teams three quarterbacks had had any previous NFL experience, yet no quarterback coach had been hired. They also noted one of the few coaches who seemed to care, Jerry Wampfler. Offensive coordinator Bob Gibson was the most frequent target of complaints and he had taken to the relatively nascent practice of calling all the plays from the upstairs press box

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46 defense
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The 46 defense is an American football defensive formation, an eight men in the box defense, with six players along the line of scrimmage. There are two players at linebacker depth playing linebacker technique, and then three defensive backs, the 46 defense was originally developed and popularized with the Chicago Bears by their defensive coordinator Buddy Ryan, who later became head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles and Arizona Cardinals. To stop a passing game, you cant stop it unless you put pressure on it, now some people are good enough to put it on with a three-man rush, well, were not. In fact, I dont know whether were good enough to put it on with a four-man rush, if we have to send eight, well send eight, but were not going to let you sit back there and pick us apart. I had to use every bit of knowledge and experience and wisdom I had to come up with plans to attack this defense. Its really the most singular innovation in defensive football in the last twenty years, the 46 defense was an innovative defense with a unique defensive front, designed to confuse and put pressure on the opposing offense, especially their quarterback. Compared to a 4-3 base defense, the 46 dramatically shifts the line to the weak side. Moreover, the weak side defensive end would be aligned one to two yards outside the offensive tackle, leaving the opposing tackle man-on-man when trying to block the pass rush. Another key feature of the 46 is that both outside linebackers tend to play on the side of the formation. To avoid confusion, the strong and weak side linebackers are often renamed the Jack and Charlie linebackers, the linebackers line up behind the linemen somewhere between one and three yards from the line of scrimmage. Ryan would use all of these rushers to out-man and overwhelm the offense, another major key to the 46 is the ability of the cornerbacks to play man free and bump and run coverage. Bump and run can allow the defense to take away the quarterbacks immediate decision-making ability, the formation was very effective in the 1980s NFL because it often negated a teams running game and forced them to throw the ball. Currently, the 46 is rarely used in professional and college football and this is largely because of multiple receiver and spread formations. The eight man line that the 46 presented was most effective against the two back, two wide receiver sets common in the 1980s. A minor weakness of the 46 defense can be too many defensive players lining up near the line of scrimmage to blitz, also, short, timed passes can be thrown before the players blitzing have a chance to reach the quarterback. In todays game, the 46 defense is often simplified to its main component of walking the strong safety up to the line of scrimmage as a man in the box to help contain the run. Defenses today may also run safety blitzes and corner blitzes at crucial moments without committing wholly to the 46 defense, up front, teams still use the concept of the T-N-T alignment, where two defensive ends are covering the guards, and a nose tackle is covering the center. In the case of a scheme, this makes it difficult for the offensive linemen to reach any of the linebackers on the second level

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Fog Bowl (American football)
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In American football, the Fog Bowl was the December 31,1988 National Football League playoff game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Chicago Bears. A dense fog rolled over Chicagos Soldier Field during the 2nd quarter, Philadelphia moved the ball effectively all day and Eagles quarterback Randall Cunningham had 407 passing yards despite the low visibility, but they could not get the ball into the end zone. Many players complained that they could not see the sidelines or first-down markers, the Bears ended up winning 20–12. The game eventually was named #3 on NFL Top 10s Weather Games, the game was also notable in that it involved head coaches who had been previously worked on the same staff of a Super Bowl winning team. Eagles coach Buddy Ryan had been the coordinator for Mike Ditka on the Bears when the team won Super Bowl XX. Chicago scored first with quarterback Mike Tomczaks 64-yard touchdown pass to Dennis McKinnon, the Eagles responded by driving to the Chicago 26-yard line, but kicker Luis Zendejas missed a 43-yard field goal. Randall Cunningham then led the Eagles inside Chicagos 5-yard line but on 4th and inches Cunningham was stuffed for no gain, however, on Chicagos ensuing possession, Cap Boso fumbled the ball, and Philadelphias Wes Hopkins recovered, giving the Eagles excellent field position at Chicagos 15-yard line. The Bears drove 44 yards on their possession and scored with Neal Andersons 4-yard touchdown run to give them a 14–6 lead. Both teams scored field goal before halftime, and they went into their locker rooms with Chicago leading 17–9. In the third quarter, Tomczak left the game with a shoulder injury, each team could only score a short field goal in the second half. The fog was so thick that both teams were forced to use their game because receivers could not see the long passes thrown to them. TV and radio announcers, and the fans in the stadium had trouble seeing what was happening on the field, CBS color commentator Terry Bradshaw, who was working the game, later said he was more frustrated than at any time when he was a player. Referee Jim Tunney ended up announcing the down and distance for each play on his wireless microphone, still, the Eagles gave themselves a chance to tie the game. Late in the quarter, Cunningham drove them into the Chicago red zone. Most of the Eagles offensive players were unaware of what had happened until they actually saw Douglass barreling toward them out of the fog, Cunningham finished the game with 407 passing yards, but was unable to lead his team to a single touchdown and was intercepted 3 times. Fullback Keith Byars rushed for 34 yards and caught 9 passes for 103 yards, tight end Keith Jackson caught 7 passes for 142 yards. Other than his 64-yard touchdown pass, Tomczak was dominated the rest of the game by the Eagles defense, McKinnon finished the game with 4 receptions for 108 yards and a touchdown

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Bounty Bowl
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The Bounty Bowl was the name given to two NFL games held in 1989 between the Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys. The first, a 1989 Thanksgiving Day game in Dallas, was noted for allegations that the Eagles put a bounty on Cowboys kicker Luis Zendejas. The second was a rematch two weeks later in Philadelphia. The Eagles, favored to win games, swept the series. After the 1988 season, the Cowboys were sold to Jerry Jones, on November 23,1989, the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Dallas Cowboys 27–0. The Philadelphia coach asserted it would have been in the Eagles best interests to keep Zendejas in the game because he was in a slump, Zendejas claimed that while he was with the Eagles, another player had received $100 for each of two hits on a punter and kicker. This set of events set the stage for the rematch two weeks later in Philadelphia, dubbed Bounty Bowl II. The second game in the series took place on December 10,1989, the game was anticipated as a media event. CBS Sports did a pre-game opening touting the contest as Bounty Bowl II, complete with wanted posters, the involved players pictures, during the game, Eagles fans threw snowballs, ice, and beer onto the field. Future Pennsylvania governor and Eagles fan Edward Rendell later admitted that he was involved in the incident, the then-former Philadelphia district attorney and future mayor of Philadelphia and governor of Pennsylvania bet another fan $20 that the latter couldnt reach the field with a snowball, Rendell lost. The Eagles won the game 20–10, Porkchop Bowl A third game in the heated rivalry took place the next season, known as the Porkchop Bowl. Philadelphia won this game as well, 21–20, the Eagles did not play another Thanksgiving game until the 2008 NFL season. Further coverage In 2008 and on April 11,2010, the game was included on a list of the ten most memorable moments in the history of Texas Stadium by ESPN, new Orleans Saints bounty scandal National Football League controversies Coachs Perspective of Bounty Bowl Bounty Bowl II Information

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Body Bag Game
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The Body Bag Game was a Monday Night Football game that was played on November 12,1990, between the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins at Veterans Stadium. The Eagles defeated the Redskins, 28–14 and this was the second game of the year between the two NFC East rivals. The Redskins were two years removed from winning Super Bowl XXII, but were a team, behind a new quarterback. The Eagles were in their season under defensive mastermind Buddy Ryan. In the previous game, on October 21, the 3–2 Redskins beat the 2–3 Eagles 13–7, behind a rushing touchdown by Gerald Riggs, the rematch would come three weeks later, on Monday Night Football, with the second-place Redskins being 5–3 and the third-place Eagles being 4–4. The Eagles would score first, on a 30-yard interception return for a touchdown by cornerback William Frizzell, in the second quarter, the Redskins would tie the game 7–7 behind a Rutledge pass to tight end Don Warren. However, by the quarter, the Eagles took control with three touchdowns. The first came on a play, with fullback Keith Byars throwing a 9-yard pass to Heath Sherman. The second came via the defense, with defensive end Clyde Simmons returning a fumble 18 yards, the final touchdown was another pass to Sherman, this time by quarterback Randall Cunningham. The Redskins would finish the scoring in the quarter, with Brian Mitchell scoring on a one-yard run. During this game, at least nine Redskin players were injured, including starting quarterback Jeff Rutledge, Washington, already playing without quarterbacks Mark Rypien and Gary Hogeboom, had to end the game with rookie running back Brian Mitchell at quarterback. Following the Body Bag Game, the Eagles won five of their last seven under Cunningham, finished the season 10–6 and earned a wild card playoff berth, the fourth seed in the tough NFC. The Redskins meanwhile also won five of their last seven to finish the season 10–6, despite this, the Redskins would return to Veterans Stadium and defeat the Eagles in the Wild Card playoff game, 20–6. The Redskins lost to defending Super Bowl champion San Francisco in the divisional round, under that rule, the third quarterback could be played, but if he entered the game before the fourth quarter, neither of the other quarterbacks could return to the game. That rule was changed again for the 2011 season when the roster size was increased to 46. Eminem references this game in his song Legacy on The Marshall Mathers LP2. com, Washington Redskins at Philadelphia Eagles, Monday, November 12,1990 – Box score of the game

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4th and 26
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4th and 26 is the commonly used name for a famous play on Sunday, January 11,2004, during the 2003–04 NFL playoffs. The play occurred during the quarter of a divisional playoff game between the visiting Green Bay Packers and the Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. James Thrash returned the ensuing kickoff 36 yards to the 44-yard line, then McNabb made up for his mistake with a 41-yard run to the Packers 15. But the drive stalled at the 14-yard line and ended with no points when David Akers missed a 30-yard field goal attempt. After the missed field goal, Ahman Green rushed three times for 31 yards before Favre threw his second pass to Ferguson, giving the Packers a 14–0 lead with 1,16 left in the first quarter. In the second quarter, McNabb led the Eagles on a drive, completing five consecutive passes for 77 yards. On the last play, his 7-yard touchdown pass to Duce Staley cut it to 14–7. Green Bay took the kickoff and drove 67 yards to the Eagles 1-yard line, featuring a 33-yard run by Green, the Packers turned the ball over on downs. Late in the quarter, the Eagles drove 88 yards in 8 plays to tie the game. Later, Antonio Chatmans 10-yard punt return gave the Packers great field position on their own 49-yard line, on the next play, Favre threw a 44-yard completion to Javon Walker. Philadelphias defense kept Green Bay out of the end zone, the drive started with a 22-yard run by Duce Staley, but on the next play, McNabb threw for an incomplete pass. Subsequently, on second down the Eagles were penalized 5 yards for a false start, on the ensuing play, a sack pushed the Eagles back to their own 26 yard line, and on third down McNabb threw another incompletion. The Eagles, faced with a fourth down and 26 yards, needed to convert for a first down, with only 1,12 remaining and no timeouts available. The pass completed to Freddie Mitchell was completed for 28 yards On fourth down, McNabb threw a perfect strike to Mitchell deep into the Packers secondary. The Packers coverage, a Cover 2 package, broke down and was criticized by broadcaster Cris Collinsworth. Linebacker Nick Barnett, who was responsible for coverage of Mitchell. The only player that was close to making a play, Packers safety Bhawoh Jue, was playing the sidelines as is customary in Cover 2 defense and was too late to prevent a catch or first down. Mitchell completed a leaping reception and was brought down at the Packers 46, the play set up David Akers 37-yard field goal attempt after McNabb ran for another first down

Philadelphia Eagles
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The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football franchise based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Eagles compete in the National Football League as a club of the leagues National Football Conference East division. The franchise was established in 1933 as a replacement for the bankrupt Frankford Yellow Jackets, when a group led by Bert

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Andy Reid speaks with Jeff Garcia in a game against the Redskins.

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Full house at "The Linc" for a 2011 playoff game

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Baseball

National Football League
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The National Football League is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference and the American Football Conference. The NFL is one of the four professional sports leagues in North America. The NFLs 17-week regular season runs from the week after Labor Day to the week after C

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The headquarters of the National Football League at 345 Park Avenue, Midtown Manhattan, New York City, U.S.

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National Football League

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The Akron Pros won the first APFA (NFL) Championship.

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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell

1960 NFL Championship Game
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The 1960 National Football League championship game was the 28th NFL title game. The game was played on Monday, December 26, at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the American Football League was in its first season and held its inaugural title game less than a week later. This was the second and last NFL championship game played in Phil

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1960 NFL Championship Game unused ticket

Jerry Wolman
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Jerry Wolman was a Washington, D. C. developer and owner of the Philadelphia Eagles football team of the National Football League. Wolman was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania and he worked in the family business into his high school years, when his father had a stroke. Not graduating, Wolman joined the Merchant Marines,

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Wolman in 1965

Quarterback
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A quarterback is a position in American and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the team and line up directly behind the offensive line. In modern American football, the quarterback is considered the leader of the offensive team. In modern American football, the quarterback is usually the leader of the offense, the quarterback touches th

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Michael Vick, a member of the NFC team at the NFL's 2006 Pro Bowl, uses his mobility to elude Dwight Freeney.

The Philadelphia Inquirer
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The Philadelphia Inquirer is a morning daily newspaper that serves the Philadelphia metropolitan area of the United States. The newspaper was founded by John R. Walker and John Norvell in June 1829 as The Pennsylvania Inquirer and is the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the United States. Owned by Philadelphia Media Network, The Inquirer h

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The paper's May 2, 2011 front page

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The Inquirer Building, formerly the Elverson Building, the home of the newspaper from 1924-2011

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The sign above the entrance to The Inquirer Building

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The former Strawbridge & Clothier Building at 801 Market Street, where the Inquirer and Daily News offices are now located.

International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning

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A 13-digit ISBN, 978-3-16-148410-0, as represented by an EAN-13 bar code

The Morning Call
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The Morning Call is a daily newspaper based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It ranks among the nations top 100 largest-circulation daily newspapers, with circulation of 80,548 daily readers and 119,216 Sunday readers, the Morning Calls history goes back to 1883 when The Critic, an Allentown newspaper, was founded. The editor, owne

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The July 27, 2005 front page of The Morning Call

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The Morning Call' s headquarters in Center City Allentown

Philadelphia
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In 1682, William Penn, an English Quaker, founded the city to serve as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony. Philadelphia was one of the capitals in the Revolutionary War. In the 19th century, Philadelphia became an industrial center. It became a destination for African-Americans in the Great Migration. The areas many universities and colleges make P

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From top left, the Philadelphia skyline, a statue of Benjamin Franklin, the Liberty Bell, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia City Hall, and Independence Hall

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An 18th century map of Philadelphia.

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Penn's Treaty with the Indians by Benjamin West

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Benjamin Franklin, 1777

History of the Philadelphia Eagles
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The official NFL history of the Philadelphia Eagles begins in 1933. The Eagles history may be divided into eight distinct eras, in their history, the Eagles have appeared in the Super Bowl twice, but they have never won it. The Eagles have won three NFL Championships, the precursor to the Super Bowl, in four appearances, the beginning era of the Ea

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Former Eagles' quarterback George Mira (1969).

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Norm Van Brocklin.

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Dick Vermeil brought the Eagles back into contention.

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Randall Cunningham, here shown with the Minnesota Vikings, wore #12 and played with the Eagles from 1985-1995.

List of Philadelphia Eagles head coaches
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This is a list of head coaches for the Philadelphia Eagles. The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Eagles joined the National Football League as an expansion team in 1933. Currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference, there have been 22 head coaches

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Bert Bell (center), a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, coached the Eagles from 1936 to 1940.

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Earle "Greasy" Neale, a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, coached the Eagles from 1941 to 1950.

List of Philadelphia Eagles players
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This is a complete list of American football players who have played for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League. It includes players that have played at least one game in the NFL regular season, the Philadelphia Eagles franchise was founded in 1933. The Eagles have played for six NFL Championships and have won three, but still have

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K David Akers

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G/T Shawn Andrews

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S Brian Dawkins

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Defensive tackle Antonio Dixon

Baker Bowl
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Baker Bowl is the best-known popular name of a baseball park that formerly stood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Its formal name, painted on its wall, was National League Park. It was also known as Philadelphia Park or Philadelphia Base Ball Grounds / Park. It was on a city block bounded by N. Broad St. W. Huntingdon St. N. 15th St. a

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Crowd entering the Baker Bowl, 1915

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The umpires lined up before a game of the 1915 World Series at the Baker Bowl.

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Baker Bowl's bleachers in 1915.

Shibe Park
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Shibe Park, known later as Connie Mack Stadium, was a baseball park located in Philadelphia. It was the home of the Philadelphia Athletics of the American League, when it opened April 12,1909, it became baseballs first steel-and-concrete stadium. In different eras it was home to The $100,000 Infield, The Whiz Kids, Shibe Park stood on the block bou

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The Steeles' French Renaissance design included a signature tower and cupola, 1909

Franklin Field
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Franklin Field is the home of the Penn Relays, and is the University of Pennsylvanias stadium for football, lacrosse and formerly for soccer, field hockey and baseball. It is also used by Penn students for recreation, and for intramural and club sports, including football and cricket. It is located in Philadelphia, at the edge of Penns campus. It w

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Franklin Field

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Franklin Field upon completion in 1922.

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Fieldhouse at the west end of the field

Veterans Stadium
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Veterans Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium in Philadelphia, in the U. S. state of Pennsylvania. It was located at the northeast corner of Broad Street and Pattison Avenue, the listed seating capacities in 1971 were 65,358 seats for football, and 56,371 for baseball. It hosted the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League from 1971 to Ja

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Exterior of Veterans Stadium.

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An aerial view of Veterans Stadium in 2002. Construction work on Citizens Bank Park can be seen to its east.

Lincoln Financial Field
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Lincoln Financial Field is the home stadium of the National Football Leagues Philadelphia Eagles and the Temple Owls football team of Temple University. It has a capacity of 69,176. It is located in South Philadelphia on Pattison Avenue between 11th and South Darien streets, also alongside I-95 as part of the South Philadelphia Sports Complex, many

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Lincoln Financial Field from I-95, before addition of solar panels to exterior.

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Lincoln Financial Field before a Temple football game in 2011.

Swoop (Philadelphia Eagles)
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The mascot Swoop is used to represent various sports organizations in the United States. One of the most notable mascots named Swoop is used by the NFL Football team the Philadelphia Eagles, various American universities use the name Swoop as their athletic program mascots. During the NFL regular season, Swoop regularly appears as a character in th

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The Eagles' version of Swoop

Curse of Billy Penn
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Atop Philadelphia City Hall stands a statue of William Penn, the city founder and original proprietor of the then-British colony of Pennsylvania. For years, a gentlemens agreement stated that the Philadelphia Art Commission would approve no building in the city which would rise above this statue and this ended in March 1987, when a modern steel-and

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Philadelphia City Hall, with statue of William Penn at top of tower

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View of Philadelphia skyline from Citizens Bank Park in 2004. William Penn's statue can be seen one-quarter from the right. Note height relationship to the newer buildings to the left. The tallest building (with antenna) is One Liberty Place

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Bronze statue of William Penn atop Philadelphia City Hall

Invincible (2006 film)
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Invincible is a 2006 American sports drama film directed by Ericson Core. It is based on the story of Vince Papale, who played for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1976 to 1978 with the help of his coach. The film was released in the United States on August 25,2006, in 1976, Vince Papale goes to a sandlot one night and joins his friends playing a pick-

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Promotional poster

Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame
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From 2004 to 2010, the organization also presented an annual Pride of Philadelphia Award to a team or individual. Individuals, Teams, Venues, Events, and Organizations are all eligible, generally they must have gained national prominence as individuals or venues while attached to the Philadelphia region, or won a championship as a team from the Phi

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Richie Ashburn, inducted in 2004, longtime player and radio broadcaster for the Philadelphia Phillies.

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Wilt Chamberlain, an inaugural class inductee, was born and raised in Philadelphia and played for the Warriors and 76ers.

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Jimmie Foxx, inducted in 2004, played for the Philadelphia Athletics.

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Connie Mack, longtime Manager and Owner of the Philadelphia Athletics was inducted in 2004.

Dan Baker (PA announcer)
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Dan Baker is an American public address announcer best known for many years as the voice of Veterans Stadium, Lincoln Financial Field, and Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. Baker has been the public address announcer for the Philadelphia Phillies since 1972 and he has served as a PA voice for five World Series, two Major League Baseball All Star

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Philadelphia Eagles Cheerleaders
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The Philadelphia Eagles Cheerleaders are the cheerleading squad of the Philadelphia Eagles, who plays in the NFL. The squad debuted in 1948 as the Eaglettes, and became the Liberty Belles in the 1970s, in April, the squad holds annual auditions at the Kimmel Center, with the final auditions being aired on PhiladelphiaEagles. com. The squad, unlike

Silver Linings Playbook
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Silver Linings Playbook is a 2012 American romantic comedy drama film written and directed by David O. Russell. It was adapted from the novel The Silver Linings Playbook, by Matthew Quick, the film stars Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, with Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, Chris Tucker, Anupam Kher, and Julia Stiles in supporting roles. Cooper p

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Theatrical release poster

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Cooper received his first Academy Award nomination for his performance.

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Lawrence won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance

Frankford Yellow Jackets
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The Yellow Jackets won the NFL championship in 1926. The team played its games from 1923 in Frankford Stadium in Frankford. The Frankford Athletic Association was organized in May 1899 in the parlor of the Suburban Club, the cost of purchasing a share in the association was $10. However, there were also contributing memberships, ranging from $1 to

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1926 Championship Team Photo

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Frankford Yellow Jackets

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Stockton and Moran Yellow Jackets 1926

Steagles
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The Steagles were the team created by the temporary merger of two National Football League teams, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles, during the 1943 season. The teams were forced to merge because both had lost many players to service during World War II. The leagues official record book refers to the team as Phil-Pitt Combine, the

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Pittsburgh-Philadelphia "Steagles" vs. New York Giants at Shibe Park October 9, 1943

Miracle at the Meadowlands
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It is considered miraculous because the Giants were ahead and could easily have run out the final seconds, they had the ball and the Eagles had no timeouts left. Everyone watching expected quarterback Joe Pisarcik to take one more snap and kneel with the ball, thus running out the clock, instead, he botched an attempt to hand off the football to fu

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Miracle at the Meadowlands/The Fumble

46 defense
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The 46 defense is an American football defensive formation, an eight men in the box defense, with six players along the line of scrimmage. There are two players at linebacker depth playing linebacker technique, and then three defensive backs, the 46 defense was originally developed and popularized with the Chicago Bears by their defensive coordinat

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46 Formation, original 4-3 base set

Fog Bowl (American football)
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In American football, the Fog Bowl was the December 31,1988 National Football League playoff game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Chicago Bears. A dense fog rolled over Chicagos Soldier Field during the 2nd quarter, Philadelphia moved the ball effectively all day and Eagles quarterback Randall Cunningham had 407 passing yards despite the low vi

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1988 NFL Divisional Playoff Game "The Fog Bowl"

Bounty Bowl
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The Bounty Bowl was the name given to two NFL games held in 1989 between the Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys. The first, a 1989 Thanksgiving Day game in Dallas, was noted for allegations that the Eagles put a bounty on Cowboys kicker Luis Zendejas. The second was a rematch two weeks later in Philadelphia. The Eagles, favored to win games, sw

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Bounty Bowl I

Body Bag Game
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The Body Bag Game was a Monday Night Football game that was played on November 12,1990, between the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins at Veterans Stadium. The Eagles defeated the Redskins, 28–14 and this was the second game of the year between the two NFC East rivals. The Redskins were two years removed from winning Super Bowl XXII, but w

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The Body Bag Game

4th and 26
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4th and 26 is the commonly used name for a famous play on Sunday, January 11,2004, during the 2003–04 NFL playoffs. The play occurred during the quarter of a divisional playoff game between the visiting Green Bay Packers and the Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. James Thrash returned the ensuing kickoff 3